William Faulkner Quotes

When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.

I think emotional and mental pain is probably worse than physical pain. I think we don't realize that I have no arms or legs but we all have disabilities of some sort, some fear, some lost, some wishes that didn't come true, things we wish would be better.

Life is so damned hard, so damned hard... It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can't be hurt ever any more. That's the last and worst thing it does.

we do not die of anguish, we live on. We continue to suffer. We drink the cup drop by drop.

We're all damaged somehow."-A Great and Terrible Beauty

Each step is more difficult than the last; the heaviness fills me and turns my limbs to stone. You must hurt or be hurt.

What hurts us is what heals us.

By then Esthappen and Rahel had learned that the world had other ways of breaking men. They were already familiar with the smell. Sicksweet. Like old roses on a breeze.

When pain is unbearable it destroys us; when it does not it is bearable.

Explanations don't comfort. You won't feel better if you know why. It won't hurt any less.

More than most, I know the pain of surviving.

Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly.

Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.

I've been hurt quite a few times.

The most terrible things end, at last.

The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.

Love and pain become one in the same in the eyes of a wounded child.

The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer, I walked down the hospital corridor looking for a phone to call my husband, and I could almost see the fear coming toward me like a big, black shadow.

Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.

Real pain hurts so bad. When you've gone through something and you've overcome it, you're able to heal other people.

I got stuff that's going to hurt for the rest of my life.

I have seen things in my life that have broken me in spirit.

Sometimes, you find peace through misery.

My great aunt raised me for about four or five years. Something I took from her was a quote: 'Fear of suffering is far worse than suffering itself.' I actually have that tattooed on the back of my arm.

Pain is mandatory for all of us. It's what teaches us. Suffering is what's optional. That's what happens when we try to skip over the pain.